Category:Ornithologie (1773)

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Ornithologie, or Histoire des oiseaux peints dans tous leurs aspects apparents et sensibles.

Zaharek and Overstreet [1] note two editions with the same title:

  • 1773 edition. Two-volume set in folio, measuring 38.7 x 28.6 cm.(15 by 11 in.), published between 1773 and 1796. "Over 200 plates", no text.
  • Nine-volume set, 483 plates (including frontispieces and engraved titles) in octavo, 21.6 x 14 cm. (8 by 5 in.), between 1787 and 1796. Includes text by Martinet.

Smithsonian copy, having 174 plates of the rare folio edition, is available at Biodiversity Heritage Library and from Smithsonian Libraries [2]. The image files in this category are from BHL.

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